EDIT: I thought this wallpaper was kind of neat btw http://www.heise.de/ct/motive/01/06/p1600.jpg

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."-Stephen Hawking"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

Aug-04-2008 21:08

Krypton83.798 g/6.022x10^23

Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Texas

Linux is nice, except for the difficulty in installing new programs, and I can't play any games on it. Nor could I use media programs. That was with Ubuntu. To install a new program, I had to actually type in commands. How 1980's is that!?

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Aug-04-2008 21:15

St_AndrewI <3 NYC

Registered: May 2003
Location: Stockholm, Sweden

quote:

Originally posted by Krypton
Linux is nice, except for the difficulty in installing new programs, and I can't play any games on it. Nor could I use media programs. That was with Ubuntu. To install a new program, I had to actually type in commands. How 1980's is that!?

That is so not true. It's actually 10 times easier than to install programs on windows. In Ubuntu there's a graphical interface where you just search for the program you want to install, mark it for installation, and then click apply. So incredibly simple my 6 year old sister could do it.

@shaolin, that looks really nice I'm also on Ubuntu now, although i turned off compiz because my 5 year old laptop would make it lag slightly

Aug-04-2008 21:18

shaolin_ZHei Hu Quan

Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Austin, Texas, USA: TXTA #102

ubuntu forums and google is your friend . Installing codec support for audio / video is easy, and with WINE installed, you can run most games too btw. I have an old ass computer so I'm playing the original unreal tournament, quake 3 and diablo 2 with WINE in Ubuntu. But I've seen a friend playing World of Worcraft and it runs and looks excellent too. If you have questions, I suppose me and / or St. Andrew could help out .

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."-Stephen Hawking"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

Aug-04-2008 21:20

shaolin_ZHei Hu Quan

Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Austin, Texas, USA: TXTA #102

quote:

Originally posted by St_Andrew
That is so not true. It's actually 10 times easier than to install programs on windows. In Ubuntu there's a graphical interface where you just search for the program you want to install, mark it for installation, and then click apply. So incredibly simple my 6 year old sister could do it.

@shaolin, that looks really nice I'm also on Ubuntu now, although i turned off compiz because my 5 year old laptop would make it lag slightly

Hehe, thanks. Yeah, I need to upgrade my ram because I've only got 512 megs right now lol. I've turned compiz off too until I get more ram .

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."-Stephen Hawking"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

Aug-04-2008 21:21

Krypton83.798 g/6.022x10^23

Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Texas

quote:

Originally posted by shaolin_Z
Hehe, thanks. Yeah, I need to upgrade my ram because I've only got 512 megs right now lol. I've turned compiz off too until I get more ram .

I've got 1GB of RAM, want to upgrade to 2GB. I also want to upgrade from 2.13Ghz to 3Ghz. You think 256MB video card is good enough. I can run hardware intensive games like supreme commander and battlefield 2142, but it can always be better!

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Aug-04-2008 21:37

shaolin_ZHei Hu Quan

Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Austin, Texas, USA: TXTA #102

quote:

Originally posted by Krypton
I've got 1GB of RAM, want to upgrade to 2GB. I also want to upgrade from 2.13Ghz to 3Ghz. You think 256MB video card is good enough. I can run hardware intensive games like supreme commander and battlefield 2142, but it can always be better!

Yeah man, you should be set with resources like that . I ironically my windows games actually run better under Linux, because the OS isn't a resource whore like Windows .

EDIT: About the video card, ask St. Andrew. I haven't kept up with games in ages. Or I could just do a bit of research for you and get back about the video card .

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."-Stephen Hawking"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

Aug-04-2008 22:01

pkcRAISTLINarbiter's chief minion

Registered: Jul 2002
Location:

quote:

Originally posted by Krypton
I also want to upgrade from 2.13Ghz to 3Ghz.

overclock. my 2.13 is @ 3.2.

quote:

Originally posted by Krypton
You think 256MB video card is good enough.

depends entirely on the model; the amount of ram on a card isnt that important any more. 8800s are so cheap right now.

quote:

Originally posted by Krypton
I can run hardware intensive games like supreme commander and battlefield 2142, but it can always be better!

battlefield is rather old, and supcom is CPU intensive, not GPU intensive.

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."-Stephen Hawking"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller